This is an unemployment story anonymously contributed to my blog. If you would like to share your story, please write me at ladyunemployed [at] gmail [dot] com. Three years ago when I first arrived here in California, I had no work permit to show that I was eligible to work here. I was waiting…
Month: September 2016
Getting Rejected for Being Too Nice [An Unemployment Story]
This is an anonymous unemployment story contributed to my blog. If you’d like to share your story, please write me at ladyunemployed [at] gmail [dot] com. After nearly 4 months of receiving rejection emails, going on interviews and never hearing from the interviewer again, and sending out hundreds of resumes into the electronic abyss, I…
Wrong Choices [An Unemployment Story]
People meet you and want to greet you not for you but because of your designated seat in the office. I was a fool in love and a topper among my classmates. I graduate and started working as a Teacher’s Assistant just to see my boyfriend. Wrong Choice. I started working as a primary sector…
Employer contesting my unemployment [An Unemployment Story]
My employer fired me. They tried to get me to sign a legal document stating that I left voluntarily for personal reasons. This was not the truth. I told them to amend the document to say that I was let go because I was not a good fit for the job. I considered signing the…
Now What? [An Unemployment Story]
I just stumbled upon this blog, and have to share my experience. At the age of 57, I left a job in banking after 16 years. The stress, the politics, the disrespect was literally killing me. I smoked, drank, took antidepressants and finally realized, it was not worth my life. I had enough in savings to live…
5 Interview Questions that Should be Asked, But Aren’t [A Guest Post]
I’ve recently found myself on ‘That side of the table.’ You know the one. The side where you sit alone and face a panel of inquisitors who hold crisp, white sheets of paper with questions that require you to summarize your career in two minute intervals. It’s been over 10 years since I’ve had to…